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    Alexander Bain (12 October 1810 – 2 January 1877) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. He installed...
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  • Alexander or Alex Bain may refer to: Alexander Bain (philosopher) (1818–1903), Scottish philosopher. Alexander Bain (inventor) (1810–1877), Scottish inventor...
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    philosopher and educationist Alexander Bain (inventor) (1811–1877), Scottish instrument inventor, technician, and clockmaker Aly Bain (born 1946), Scottish fiddler...
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    designers argued damaged their businesses. Frederick Bakewell Alexander Bain (inventor) Giovanni Caselli Fax Hellschreiber Pantelegraph Slow-scan television...
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    Watten was the birthplace of Alexander Bain, inventor of a type of pendulum-regulated electric clock and the fax machine. Bain is commemorated by a carved...
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  • 2 Scotland: Alexander Bain (inventor): Electro-chemical telegraph Charles Macintosh: Mac James Clerk Maxwell: Robert Stirling: Inventor James Gregory...
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    MacLeod in premises on the Cowgate in 1883. Moira Anderson, singer Alexander Bain, inventor of an electric clock, lived in Kirkintilloch in his latter days...
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  • Royal Navy officer, inventor, and steamship captain William Alexander Bain (1905–1971), Scottish pharmacologist William J. Bain (1896–1985), Seattle...
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  • Granville-Barker, actor, playwright and critic (died 1946) 2 January – Alexander Bain, inventor (born 1811) 21 January – Sir Fairfax Moresby, admiral of the fleet...
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    chimney stack. A modern plaque on Stafford Place commemorates Alexander Bain, inventor of the electric telegraph, who served as an apprentice to a watchmaker...
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  • Charles Spagnoletti (category British inventors)
    work at the National Debt Office. He soon started studying with Alexander Bain, inventor and engineer, and worked with him on a printing telegraph. He joined...
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  • – John Brown, physician and essayist (died 1882) 12 October – Alexander Bain, inventor (died 1877) 8 December – John Strain, first Roman Catholic Archbishop...
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  • Baronet, of Fingask, whisky distiller (suicide 1924) 2 January – Alexander Bain, inventor (born 1810) 3 February – James Merry, ironmaster, race-horse breeder...
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  • the Mysteries of Ground Radio". Burns, R. W., "Alexander Bain, a most ingenious and meritorious inventor". Engineering Science and Education Journal, Volume...
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    1911. p. 821. Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Charles IX. (King of Sweden)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). p. 929. Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911)...
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    1874 The electric clock: Alexander Bain (1840) Chemical Telegraph (Automatic Telegraphy) Alexander Bain (1846) In England Bain's telegraph was used on the...
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    H. Chamberlain. In 1854 a pump action harmonica gun was patented by Alexander Bain. A crank-operated harmonica gun was patented in 1856 by C. G. Terrel...
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    pp. 68–69. Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Elizabeth Petrovna" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). pp. 283–285. "Suvárov, Alexander Vasilievich" ...
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    able to quickly cut Germany's cables worldwide. In 1843, Scottish inventor Alexander Bain invented a device that could be considered the first facsimile...
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  • Frederick Bakewell (category English inventors)
    who improved on the concept of the facsimile machine introduced by Alexander Bain in 1842 and demonstrated a working version at the 1851 World's Fair...
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    2307/j.ctv56fggn. ISBN 978-1-55238-990-4. JSTOR j.ctv56fggn. Yates, Richard; Bain, Penny; Yates, Ruth (2000). Introduction to Law in Canada. Prentice Hall...
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  • that neither party held an exclusive claim and the true inventor of celluloid/xylonite was Alexander Parkes, due to his mention of camphor in his earlier...
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    enforcement settings. Scottish inventors Matthew Cash and Alexander Bain worked on chemical-mechanical fax-type devices and in 1846 Bain was able to reproduce...
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  • John Alexander Hopps, OC (May 21, 1919 – November 24, 1998) was a co-developer of both the first artificial pacemaker and the first combined pacemaker-defibrillator...
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    Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (category 19th-century German inventors)
    while sitting alone at home with an oil lamp on Christmas Eve, 1883. Alexander Bain had transmitted images telegraphically in the 1840s but the Nipkow disk...
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    Philippine Tradition". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 27 September 2024. Nys, Bain & Van Immerseel 2011, p. 497. Ang, Catharina Y.W.; Liu, Keshun (1999). "Japanese...
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  • footballer Allister Adel (1976–2022), American district attorney Allister Bain (born 1935), Grenadian actor, playwright, and screenwriter Allister Brimble...
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  • Physics laureate Richard Davenport-Hines (born 1953); historian, writer Roly Bain (1954–2016), clown-priest David Bean (born 1954), judge Nicholas Kroll (born...
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  • Karoline" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 582. Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Poniatowski, Joseph Anthony" . Encyclopædia Britannica...
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  • (died 1962), American conservationist. January 2 – Alexander Bain (born 1810), Scottish inventor. January 12 – Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister...
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